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Infrastructure, identity and networks — and the software to fill the gaps.

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Role
IT Specialist
Currently
Minta Gépgyártó Kft.
Local time
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  • Proxmox
  • Hyper-V
  • Windows Server
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Active Directory
  • Entra ID
  • Intune
  • Apple Business Manager
  • Group Policy
  • CrowdStrike
  • BitDefender GravityZone
  • Wazuh
  • BitLocker
  • WatchGuard Firebox
  • Ubiquiti
  • VLAN
  • PRTG
  • NinjaONE
  • PDQ
  • NetApp
  • Synology NAS
  • MSSQL
  • DECT
  • React Native
  • C#
  • Node.js
  • Firebase
2025 — present

Now

Head of IT Infrastructure

Minta Gépgyártó Kft.

  • Proxmox
  • Hyper-V
  • Active Directory
  • Entra ID
  • PRTG
  • Wazuh
  • Ubiquiti

Responsible for the whole estate with a team of three: virtualisation, directory, network, security and endpoints — and coordination with the group’s IT teams abroad.

In IT since
2014
Areas of practice
8
Tools and technologies
33
Rack cabinets
25
05 projects

Projects

More projects

8 areas

Capabilities

Eight areas of the day-to-day — from the server room to the endpoint.

  • 016 items
    Fig. 01

    Virtualisation & compute

    Hypervisor clusters, templates and capacity — the machine room everything else runs on.

    physical hosts
    15
    virtual machines
    ~40
    • Proxmox
    • Hyper-V
    • Windows Server
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Blade servers
  • 026 items
    Fig. 02

    Identity & directory

    Who can reach what: on-premises directory, cloud accounts and device management in one plan.

    domain controllers
    2
    • Active Directory
    • Entra ID
    • Intune
    • Apple Business Manager
    • Group Policy
    • Internal DNS
  • 035 items
    Fig. 03

    Security

    Layers that overlap, so one missed step is not also an incident.

    • CrowdStrike
    • BitDefender GravityZone
    • Wazuh
    • BitLocker
    • WatchGuard Firebox
  • 044 items
    Fig. 04

    Network

    From cable to firewall: segmented, documented, and where the drawing says it is.

    rack cabinets
    25
    • Ubiquiti
    • VLAN
    • Fibre and copper cabling
    • 25 rack cabinets
  • 053 items
    Fig. 05

    Monitoring & ops

    Knowing about a fault before the user does: monitoring, remote management and patching.

    • PRTG
    • NinjaONE
    • PDQ
  • 063 items
    Fig. 06

    Storage & data

    Data that exists and can be restored — not merely saved somewhere.

    • NetApp
    • Synology NAS
    • MSSQL
  • 073 items
    Fig. 07

    Physical systems

    Cameras, phones and printing: the part of IT you can touch.

    IP cameras
    ~150
    • IP cameras
    • DECT
    • Paragon print management
  • 084 items
    Fig. 08

    Software

    Small tools for the gaps that boxed products do not reach.

    • React Native
    • C#
    • Node.js
    • Firebase
  • The full listEvery tool, with its depth, in the CV
2011 — present

Track record

  1. 2011 — 20155 yearsStudy

    BSc — Computer Engineering

    Példa Műszaki Egyetem · Szeged

    Networks, operating systems and distributed systems. Thesis: building a virtualised test lab automatically.

    • Thesis graded excellent and adopted by the department’s lab
    • C
    • Linux
    • Cisco IOS
    • Python
  2. 2014 — 20163 yearsWork

    IT Support Technician

    Példa Informatikai Szolgáltató Kft. · Szeged

    First-line support for three client companies: tickets, workstation installs and re-imaging, printers and network devices.

    • ~450 tickets a month, 92% resolved on first contact
    • Image-based installs: 40 minutes a machine instead of 3 hours
    • Windows 10
    • Active Directory
    • WDS
    • OTRS
  3. 2016 — 20194 yearsWork

    System Administrator

    Minta Logisztika Zrt. · Győr

    Servers and network for three sites: Windows Server and Active Directory, backups, VPN between the warehouses, and the operations side of the ERP system.

    • Site-to-site VPN across all three sites
    • Backups rebuilt on the 3-2-1 rule, with a restore test every quarter
    • Windows Server
    • Hyper-V
    • Veeam
    • pfSense
  4. 2019 — 20213 yearsWork

    Infrastructure Engineer

    Acme Gyártástechnika Kft. · Kecskemét

    Redesigning the plant’s virtualisation and network foundations: consolidating old physical servers, separating the production and office networks, monitoring.

    • 22 physical servers consolidated into a 4-host Proxmox cluster
    • The production network isolated with VLANs and firewall rules
    • Proxmox
    • Ubiquiti
    • VLAN
    • Zabbix
  5. 2021 — 20233 yearsWork

    Senior Systems Administrator

    Lorem Egészségügyi Központ · Budapest

    Hardening a 400-workstation healthcare network: endpoint protection, encryption, access reviews, and the technical side of compliance audits.

    • EDR rolled out to 400 endpoints in six weeks
    • Full-disk encryption on every portable machine
    • CrowdStrike
    • BitLocker
    • Intune
    • Wazuh
  6. 2023 — 20253 yearsStudy

    MSc — Cybersecurity (part-time)

    Minta Tudományegyetem · Budapest

    Incident response, security monitoring and risk analysis, alongside work. Dissertation: log analysis with an open-source SIEM for small and medium businesses.

    • Wazuh
    • Python
    • ISO 27001
  7. 2023 — 20253 yearsWork

    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    Ipsum Pénzügyi Zrt. · Budapest

    Hybrid identity and cloud device management: on-premises Active Directory in sync with Entra ID, Intune policies, conditional access, infrastructure as code.

    • Multi-factor sign-in on every account, no exceptions
    • A new machine goes from box to ready for work in 25 minutes
    • Entra ID
    • Intune
    • Azure
    • Terraform
  8. 2025 — present2 yearsWork

    Head of IT Infrastructure

    Minta Gépgyártó Kft. · Budapest

    Responsible for the whole estate with a team of three: virtualisation, directory, network, security and endpoints — and coordination with the group’s IT teams abroad.

    • 15 physical hosts, ~40 virtual machines, 25 rack cabinets
    • A documented disaster-recovery plan, rehearsed every quarter
    • Proxmox
    • Hyper-V
    • Active Directory
    • Entra ID
    • PRTG
    • Wazuh
    • Ubiquiti

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